“Little people” believe Obama is the ticket to “finally getting their slice of the pie.” But that is only because they are naive and frankly ignorant.

The reality is that Obama will take from the haves and piss it away rather than perform the usual Robin Hood function. Just like all the liberals promising their liberal utopias before him. And the poor will actually end up worse off rather than better off as the overall economy shrinks due to Obama’s policies.

Newsflash: the poor will remain poor under Obama’s stimulus giveaways.

WASHINGTON – The billions in transportation stimulus dollars that President Barack Obama promoted as a way to create jobs shortchange counties that need the work the most, an Associated Press analysis has found.

The AP’s review of more than 5,500 planned transportation projects nationwide is the most complete picture available of where states plan to spend the first wave of highway money. It reveals that states are planning to spend 50 percent more per person in areas with the lowest unemployment than in communities with the highest. The Transportation Department said it will attempt to replicate the AP’s analysis as it continues pressing states to dole out money fairly.

One result among many: Elk County, Pa., isn’t receiving any road money despite its 13.8 percent unemployment rate. Yet the military and college community of Riley County, Kan., with 3.4 percent unemployment, will benefit from about $56 million to build a highway, improve an intersection and restore a historic farmhouse.[…]

The AP reviewed $18.9 billion in projects. They account for about half of the money set aside for states and local governments to spend on roads, bridges and infrastructure in the stimulus plan.

The very promise that Obama made, to spend money quickly and create jobs, is locking out many struggling communities needing those jobs.

The money goes to projects ready to start. But many struggling communities don’t have projects waiting. They couldn’t afford the millions of dollars for preparation and plans that often is required.

“It’s not fair,” said Martin Schuller, the borough manager in the Elk County seat of Ridgway, who commiserates about the inequity in highway aid with colleagues in nearby towns. “It’s a joke because we’re not going to get it, because we don’t have any projects ready to go.”

I seem to recall hearing the Republicans – who were completely locked out of the $3.27 trillion Obama stimulus plan – predicting that this spending plan wouldn’t stimulate anything but the size of an already-bloated federal government. And lo and behold: Obama promised Caterpillar his stimulus would save the day for them, but it hasn’t done squat for them; and state after state is saying the stimulus package hasn’t helped them. Oh, well: what’s a few trillion dollars wasted?

And you think someone else is going to continue to pay for all of that? When we could literally confiscate all the wealth of the richest 5% and STILL NOT scratch the surface of all the debt we are accumulating?

The Joe the Plumber issue began with Barack Obama having a conversation with a plumber who planned to buy his employers’ business, but realized with concern that he would be paying much higher taxes under Obama’s plan. Obama responded:

“It’s not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance for success too,” Obama responded. “My attitude is that if the economy’s good for folks from the bottom up, it’s gonna be good for everybody … I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”

Please realize: we’re talking about a PLUMBER and a SMALL BUSINESS – not a Wall Street tycoon or a big corproation. He would pay more in taxes under Obama’s plan. It turns out that half of the over 8 million taxpayers in the top 5% of income earners are small business owners. And it is small business owners who are and have been the engine of the economy and who are hiring the most workers. All the small businesses that are driving that engine – the businesses that employ at least 20 workers – would pay more taxes under Obama’s plan.

Obama keeps claiming that he’ll cut taxes for 95% of Americans. but about 40% of Americans don’t pay federal taxes. Obama will give these free riders an IRS welfare check paid for by taxpayers, amounting to nearly $400 billion dollars a year. Obama’s tax credit goodies will be “fully refundable,” which is taxspeak for government payments that do not require a tax liability on the part of recipients in order to be paid out. This is a transfer payment, a transfer of wealth, and socialism.

Corporations don’t pay taxes; they pass them on to you through higher prices. Obama’s tax increase on corporations will amount to a de facto higher cost of living for you. To the extent that it cuts into their profits, corproations will increasingly outsource jobs to save on labor costs, or they will simply relocate their operations to countries with lower corporate tax structures (that currently means anywhere on the planet except Japan unless taxes are lowered here).

If you want corporations and businesses to hire more workers and provide goods and services at low prices, you have to lower their tax burdens. You don’t create an incentive to hire more workers when you increase their costs of doing business.

“Spread the wealth around,” Obama says. From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. Bottom line, if you design a system which does not sufficiently reward people based on allowing them to enjoy the fruits of their hard work, than no one will have incentive to work hard. The hard worker will eventually get tired of working for the lazy person unless he can keep what he produces for the benefit of himself and his family.

In Europe, the steep rates create a disincentive to continue working. If you have to pay skyhigh taxes after $200,000 (as a single filer in Obama’s plan), why keep working hard after you’ve made your $200,000? Obama will confiscate most of your profits (for New Yorkers, as an example, it would be 65 cents of every dollar!). If you’re a small business owner, you have good reason to simply shut down and take a long vacation until next April. We don’t want that here.

Investors’ Business Daily describes Obama as “the most anti-capitalist politician ever nominated by a major party.” And for good reason. Sadly, the media has largely given inspection of Obama’s economic and tax plans a pass. The specifics are largely unknown to the American people. Barack Obama will regard the recent socializing of much of our financial system as a leaping-off point.

Obama is claiming that his plan will save money. It won’t. It has been tried, and it has failed. He is overestimating the “savings” of his plan, and massively underestimating the costs.

Barack Obama’s health care plan is estimated to cost $1.6 trillion in 10 years. And that’s if everything goes wll. But it won’t go well. The numbers don’t take into account the very sort of cost overruns and cost increases that are even now plaguing the very state that Obama is basing his own plan upon. What is going to happen to our economy given the extremely real likelihood that Obama’s massive national plan runs into similar issues? Do you believe our economy is strong enough to bear the brunt of these massive cost increases?

You need to understand something else that emerged from the second debate: is health care a privilege, a right, or a responsibility? Obama answered “It should be a right.” What does that mean? It means that a government has a fundamental duty to guarantee me my health care the same way it has a duty to guarantee me right to free speech or my right to assembly. You have a constitutional, government-imposed duty to give me health care – no matter what – regardless of how much it costs you and your family to do so. Am I an alcoholic who needs a liver transplant? You owe me a new liver. As an American citizen (or an illegal immigrant, under Obama’s plan) I have a right to that liver. Did I sustain a brain injury riding my motorcycle without a helmet because I like to feel the wind in my hair? Doesn’t matter. Do I want a sex change? Give it to me! I have a fundamental constitutional right to that liver, or to that brain surgery and all the long months of incredibly expensive therapy, or to my sex change operation. I also have a right to years of incredibly expensive psychological counseling with highly paid professionals. And if I have any pre-existing conditions, you still have to cover me (and illegal immigrants because we don’t deny fundamental rights to anyone in the United States, even if they are here illegally), no matter what.

Do you understand how expensive this can all get?

Do you understand that Barack Obama is essentially talking about socializing a quarter of our economy? Do you trust your government’s track record to do that?

On the mortgage industry collapse:

Neither candidate brought up the fact that there was a gigantic elephant in the room. And it was ridiculous. A lot of people are livid over this collapse and the subsequent $850 billion bailout package Congress approved. But Democrats are all over this. From their passage of the Community Reinvestment Act, to Bill Clinton’s radical expansion of the program (particularly in the last two years of his 2nd administration); to the almost exclusively Democratic leadership of Government Supported Enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (e.g. Jim Johnson, Franklin Raines, and Jamie Gorelick who collectively took over $300 million from the GSEs even as they played around with the books); to the repreated stubborn refusal of congressional Democrats to regulate Fannie and Freddie during the first six years of President Bush’s presidency.

Barney Frank repeatedly said that Fannie and Freddie were fine, and that regulation was unnecessary. The last time was on July 14, 2008 – only a couple months before they went belly up. He assured the American people – and American investors – that Fannie and Freddie stock were strong going forward. The stock of Fannie and Freddie and declined 90% during the Democrats’ watch. And oversight of Fannie and Freddie was Congress’ job, NOT President Bush’s.

This was a Democrat-created disaster.

And the level of propagandizing and demagoguery blaming Republicans for “the failed policies of the last 8 years” has reached a level of deceit not seen since Hitler blamed the Jews for all of Germany’s problems.

It is for this reason that I will refuse to support a President Obama or any country that elects him to lead it. If the American people vote for Barack Obama, I will agree with Jeremiah Wright to this extent: “No, no, no. Not God bless America. God damn America!” God damn an America that would vote for a certified baby killer.

Conclusion:

Our already-most-expensive education system in the world (around $65 billion a year) that isn’t producing education for our kids is going to get another nearly $20 billion a year from Barack Obama. But the government throwing money at schools is clearly not the answer: Washington D.C. spends more money per student than any public school system in the world, but provides the worst education in the country. As John McCain pointed out several times last night, again and again, Barack Obama sees big government spending other peoples’ money as the solution to every problem.

The obvious question to ask should be, where’s all this money going to come from? From “the rich”? Fat chance. Half of the rich are no longer “rich” after all their investments went south; they invested themselves out of Obama’s 5% group. The other half are going to shelter their money from Obama so they won’t have to pay Obama’s new taxes. Where’s Obama going to get his money? He’s going to come after you, and – given the polling figures – chances are you are too damn stupid to know it.

But if paying more taxes is any kind of measure of patriotism – and shouldn’t everybody want to be patriotic? – then why does Barack Obama want the OTHER 95% of Americans to be LESS PATRIOTIC?

This whole “fair share” thing – to a tiny group of people who are ALREADY paying half of the total tax burden – has always been ridiculous, just as it has always amounted to naked class warfare and naked socialistic redistributionism right out of Karl Marx’s playbook. But hopefully Biden’s description shows just how asinine it truly is.

If you are in the group of 95% of Americans who are supposed to pay less in taxes because of Barack Obama’s plan (which is already weird, considering that 40% of Americans don’t pay federal income taxes as it is), you are acknowledging that other people should be more patriotic, while you should get to be less patriotic.

The statement is patently false, and it is beyond easy to prove it’s patently false.

The 5% of Americans that Barack Obama will attack with tax increases already pay more than 50% of the total income tax burden. It is simply a naked act of class warfare to demand that people who are already overtaxed pay still more taxes.

How can Obama reduce federal taxes for 95% of Americans when 40% of Americans don’t pay federal taxes? He can’t. It is logically impossible.

What Obama will do is seize more from the wealthy, and – in an act of sheer pandering – give it to people who have not earned it. He will use the IRS as a welfare agency. You do all the work; I reap well over half of the benefit.

During his interview with Barack Obama, Bill O’Reilly called Obama’s plan “class warfare,” and Obama replied, “It’s not. Ninety-five percent is not class warfare.” Sure it is. Whenever one class of any size votes to take from another economic class, it’s class warfare.

Someone managed to stop Benjamin Franklin’s rolling in his grave long enough to ask him what he thought about Barack Obama’s tax plan. Founding father Benjamin Franklin responded:

Wow. That’s pretty tough. All Barack Obama is doing is saying, “If you vote for me, I will seize other people’s money and give it to people who did not earn it in a direct transfer payment.” But Benjamin Franklin understood with razor sharpness how profoundly wrong Barack Obama’s socialism was nearly two hundred years before Obama was even born.

The reason Benjamin Franklin was so diametrically opposed to Barack Obama’s socialist, class-warfare, welfare payment tax plan is because he understood the thought of another man who condemned Barack Obama nearly two centuries before Obama was born.

The 17th Century Scottish historian Alexander Tytler studied the rise and fall of nations and presented his findings in what we now call Tytler’s Cycle. According to Tytler, all nations go from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to freedom, from freedom to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, and from dependence back to bondage. Tytler said the absolutely critical thing that leads a nation to decline from abundance to selfishness and on down the vicious cycle, is when they vote themselves benefits from the national treasury. And Benjamin Franklin understood this basic fact of history.

Barack Obama doesn’t.

This election may come down to whether we want Benjamin Franklin’s independent America or Barack Obama’s socialist America. It may come down to whether we want to heed Alexander Tytler’s warning to cultures from history, or disregard it.